Top 100 Courtney Summers Quotes
#1. The people feel and look the same, like they've settled here even though they know there's something more-something better-just beyond where they are.
Small-town life.
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#2. The infected give chase and I won't look back, can't. Hearing them is enough, a cacophony of breathless shrieking that all means one thing: mine, mine, mine.
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#3. I don't know why he still cares. What a stupid thing it is, to care about a girl.
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#4. How many people you lost? he asks asfter a second.
God. Numbers heavy in my mind will be even heavier off my tongue. I don't know what's worse, holding their names, or turning them into a body count.
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#5. You know all the ways you can kill a girl?
God, there are so many.
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#6. I don't have time for the 'things change speech, Parker."
"So give me the CliffNotes version.
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#7. This is awful. This is so hopeless. We're all lost in different ways, so how do we even help each other find our way out. We won't. We can't. We'll just stay lost forever.
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#8. I'm struck by how amazing it is and how sad that makes me, because I've never seen that. He's not like that around me. The way his mouth quirks and lights up his eyes. He should smile more often. It's so innocent.
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#10. I'm hazy on remembering or maybe I'm just tired or maybe a part of my brain wants to sabotage me.
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#11. It's a slow process; he always seems reluctant to let her go and I think she likes to savor that as much as possible.
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#12. Anytime something bad happens to a woman close to me, it's how I think. I have a daughter.
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#13. It's something my body does without checking with my head first, like the obligation to be nice to him is greater than myself.
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#14. The silence stretches between us. Words aren't so easy to come by, after his admission. It takes him a while to dig some up.
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#15. He shoves his hands in his pockets, which is okay by me because his hands are forever distracting, all the things they could do.
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#16. My dad used to say makeup was a shallow girl's sport, but it's not. It's armor.
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#17. Real life is always quieter and anticlimactic somehow. But devastating all the same.
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#18. The blinds are drawn and the light in here is so weak, but I would know her silhouette anywhere. I memorized it. She's here and every moment without her was a lie.
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#19. So you never said if you're having a boy or girl."
"We won't know until it's born."
I hope it's not a girl. The thought shocks me, comes so quick it has to be honest. So I think it again, careful and slow to be sure. I hope it's not a girl. I feel it even more the second time.
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#21. But just because something starts out sweet doesn't mean it won't push itself so far past anything you could call sweet anymore. And if it all starts like this, how do you see what's coming?
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#22. Death has been here and where death has been no light shall ever be .
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#24. You're not responsible for everything, Parker. You can't control the way things end up. Stop trying.
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#25. Cardboard cutouts of cheerleaders operated by arthritic monkeys would move more fluidly.
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#26. There's a girl out there everyone thinks is dead and maybe she is because you know all the ways there are to kill a girl? I do.
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#27. I remind myself it's nothing I have to hold or be held to.
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#29. it's blindingly awful and awfully satisfying all at the same time.
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#30. He's the boy who stopped and I'm the girl he stopped for and what happens to her, if he goes away?
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#31. I wonder if all hearts are made with the same pockets for fear and pain and sadness. They must not be, or if they are, maybe we all don't know how to use them. Because otherwise so many of our stories would have ended differently.
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#32. I close my eyes and lean my head against the seat, and the word fuck just repeats itself over and over in my head, because fuck.
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#33. How do you say that physically, you're okay, when everything is not.
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#35. You think I ever stopped wanting to die after the motel?" I ask. "You think a feeling like that just goes away?
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#37. She was supposed to be the strong one," she says.
"Sloane."
"But I've gotten so much farther than her.
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#38. I make sure to tell her I love her because more and more, I'm thinking about the last things I say before I leave.
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#39. I'm afraid everything I was is gone and all that's left is everything I'm not.
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#40. If anyone else said that to me, I think I'd roll my eyes, but Culler saying it to me means me committing it to memory and locking it inside so I'll always have it.
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#41. You only get to walk variations of the same lines everyone has already drawn for you.
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#42. She was young and alive, untouchable. Why did she want to go?
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#45. Maybe the only way our story can end is varying degrees of sad.
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#47. I hate that I'm so numb and empty and disconnected from most of these people but even I can see worth in stupid little moments like these. These people aren't even my family, but I can see their value and if I can see it in something this small, when I feel this bad, then
Then why didn't he?
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#49. You know how you feel when you meet someone and they just give you the impression they're living on this entirely different planet from everyone else? That's sort of how I felt when I met you.
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#50. A successful piss on the side of the road and we didn't die. What a great time that was.
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#52. It's just this emptiness between us, the stupid idea I could kiss it away,
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#53. I've fought off groups before and making it out in one piece was pure dumb luck. That's it. These days it feels like alive is an accidental state of being.
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#54. I half-expect to check out, but I'm really there for it. It's not like at the dance, angry and forced. It's terrible in its gentleness and he's just wasting it on me.
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#55. I try to imagine what it must be like to have art inside of you and then to not have it anymore. To lose it, to not be able to find it, to search for it... Maybe that is a good reason to kill yourself.
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#56. I mean, you know how it is. You chase a bottle of sleeping pills with a bottle of Jack Daniel's and life's never the same, no matter how many times you try to tell people it was just an accident.
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#57. This must be what Dorothy felt like, I think. Maybe. If Dorothy was six scared teenagers and Oz was hell.
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#58. Write it down today, put it away, make sense of it tomorrow.
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#59. We were beyond needing other people. Anyone else who happens on the both of us, they're just temps.
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#60. It's kind of like stumbling upon the scene of an accident. Once you've looked, you're part of it. Especially if you walk away.
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#61. Helen Turner hates me and the way Helen Turner hates me feels like the worst kind of betrayal. A woman who doesn't think about daughters she doesn't have.
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#62. I want to shove the question down his throat until he chokes on it.
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#63. I want to feel this. I need it to hurt for me to feel it, I think.
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#65. I have never seen a more desperate symbol of hope since the world ended and I've never felt the world more desperate to make a mockery of it.
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#66. I want to burn a moment of helplessness into him so he can know a fraction of what I felt, what I feel, what's followed me every moment since, so I You cover cover his her mouth mouth.
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#67. There's a miracle there, but there's something so awful about it too, bringing someone into all this now, this world where a girl can't even trust a drink that passes her lips. I can't figure out the kind of heart it takes to do something like that.
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#69. The problem with alienating, self-destructive behavior is people get it into their heads it's a cry for help. It wasn't.
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#70. It's when my body decides to remind me it can do more than I'll ever want it to, it is so painful.
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#71. I take a swig from Milo's flask and hand it back to him. He screws the top back on. He inherited the flash from his grandfather and stole the liquor from his mother. The circle of life.
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#72. I wouldn't have left you like that. Not like she did to me." I swallow hard. "She always said I'd die without her and she left anyway."
"But you didn't die," He says.
"I did," I say. "I'm just waiting for the rest of me to catch up.
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#73. Tell Liz,' I say, 'the mean girl totally got what she deserved in the end.
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#74. I reach for the pettiest thing I can think of because no one has a hard time believing how petty a girl can be.
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#75. If I can do things right, I don't see why everyone else can't.
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#76. It's okay, we can go back from this. It comes out of his mouth so kind - he means it - and it just makes me feel worse. That he can kiss me like this and change everything, but still promise me nothing has to change because I can't promise him anything.
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#77. I'm sorry," he tells me.
I sit down on the bed. He returns to the view of the street below. I follow his gaze and I see the infected walking slowly back and forth.
"It's okay," I say.
"Okay," he says. He nods. "Good."
He puts the gun under his chin and pulls the trigger.
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#78. Yeah, sure," I say, and then, for good measure: "Whatever.
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#79. Becky, you're only standing there because I decided I didn't want to.
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#80. Dad was thirsty, not given to great displays of affection, like his father and his father's father before him. A long line of self-indulgent men who couldn't give love but lived to take it, which isn't the same as receiving it. They were all in so much pain and that's always the perfect excuse.
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#81. You know," she says. "You're still alive. I don't know how many different ways I can try to tell you before it finally sinks in.
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#82. Oh" She seems relieved. "So you weren't - "
"Don't worry, Ms.Grey. I wasn't drinking, smoking, toking or snorting in school. I keep the recreational drug use at home where it belongs.
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#83. Eddie, I think ... sometimes lies bring you to the truth ... or help you reconcile with it ...
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#84. I elbow my way through the mass of people to get to my locker because there's something immensely satisfying about the toughest part of my arm connecting with the softest part of everyone else.
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#85. The truth is, I don't really know if she could help me, but I know she really wants to believe she could and I know she wants me to come to her believing it too. My love should be knowing this about her and being able to pretend, but I can
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#86. Because you made it here on a lot less" he says and he has no idea how on the mark he is.
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#87. It can't be wrong to want to see someone because you like the person you are when you're around them. That's probably one of the best reasons you could have.
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#88. Funny how the last thing we want the world to see is almost the first thing to show.
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#89. Then I should be dead really soon, because you're stressing me out.
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#90. A deadline should not prevent you from writing, but writing will help prevent you from missing your deadline. Then write a word. Then remind yourself of that again. And then write another and hey, look at you! You're spitting in that deadline's eye.
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#92. Everyone who knows her loves her. Except people hurt the people they love all the time.
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#93. He slings his arm around my shoulder. I feel the question after he does it. -Is this okay?- I don't think it is. I don't know how to fold myself into him in any way that feels right.
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#95. In the girls' bathroom, I run the water hot and hold my hands under it until I feel
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#96. Carving out our own place, making something out of nothing. It feels as right as it doesn't and I think maybe I was wrong. We can't have exactly everything we lost. But maybe we can come close.
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#97. I hear the unmistakable sound of glass breaking and I start apologizing to no one, trying to pick it up again, but I can't.
I can't get my hands to work because they're too cold.
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#98. I walk over to the window and peer out at the party. I like it better from this distance, away from everyone. Safe.
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#99. I close my eyes and think of the photograph Culler showed me. I see it in my head perfectly. He'll be there, at that school. Another piece of my father. And then another. Six pieces. I will find them all, put them together. I'll find him.
And then I'll let him go.
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#100. How does it feel to know that even at my worst, you're still not good enough?
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